Etymology

spiritsome

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Today it means: Characteristic of or possessing the qualities of a spirit; spiritlike. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *samaz ← Proto-Indo-European *somHós ← English spirit
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)peys-der.?
  2. Latinspīrō
  3. Latinspīritu
  4. Old Frenchespirit
  5. Middle Englishspirit
  6. Englishspirit
  7. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*somHós
  9. Proto-Germanic*samaz
  10. English todayspiritsome

From spirit + -some.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.